butterfly
[ˈbʌ.ɾɚ.flaɪ]noun, verb3 syllables
Butterfly means: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.
Synonyms for butterfly9
What does butterfly mean?5
verb
1
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions“The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries”
2
flutter like a butterfly
3
cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking“butterflied shrimp”
noun
1
a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
2
diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Butterfly in a sentence
- The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly is famous.SunnyMoon
- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Adelpa
- Every butterfly was a caterpillar, but not all caterpillars will be butterflies.DJ_Saidez
- One day, this caterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly.sundown
- Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.Adelpa
- Every butterfly has been a caterpillar, but not every caterpillar will become a butterfly.Objectivesea
- Every butterfly has been a larva, but not all larvae will become butterflies.Objectivesea
- The children run around the park, back and forth, trying to catch the butterflies.carlosalberto
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of butterfly
as a noun
- plural
- butterflies
as a verb
- third-person singular
- butterflies
- present participle
- butterflying
- past participle
- butterflied
- past tense
- butterflied